Topological states on fractal lattices

S Pai, A Prem - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We investigate the fate of topological states on fractal lattices. Focusing on a spinless chiral
p-wave paired superconductor, we find that this model supports two qualitatively distinct …

Topology in the Sierpiński-Hofstadter problem

M Brzezińska, AM Cook, T Neupert - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Using the Sierpiński carpet and gasket, we investigate whether fractal lattices embedded in
two-dimensional space can support topological phases when subjected to a homogeneous …

Nontrivial topological flat bands in a diamond-octagon lattice geometry

B Pal - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We present the appearance of nearly flat-band states with nonzero Chern numbers in a two-
dimensional “diamond-octagon” lattice model comprising two kinds of elementary plaquette …

Flat bands in fractal-like geometry

B Pal, K Saha - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We report the presence of multiple flat bands in a class of two-dimensional lattices formed by
Sierpinski gasket (SPG) fractal geometries as the basic unit cells. Solving the tight-binding …

The topological insulator in a fractal space

ZG Song, YY Zhang, SS Li - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the band structures and transport properties of a two-dimensional model of
topological insulator, with a fractal edge or a fractal bulk. A fractal edge does not affect the …

Engineering slow light and mode crossover in a fractal-kagome waveguide network

A Nandy, A Chakrabarti - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We present an analytically exact scheme of unraveling a multitude of flat, dispersionless
photonic bands in a kagome waveguide strip where each elementary plaquette hosts a …

Flat band analogues and flux driven extended electronic states in a class of geometrically frustrated fractal networks

A Nandy, B Pal, A Chakrabarti - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate, by explicit construction, that a single band tight binding Hamiltonian
defined on a class of deterministic fractals of the b= 3N Sierpinski type can give rise to an …

Localized and extended collective optical phonon modes in regular and random arrays of contacting nanoparticles: Escape from phonon confinement

SV Koniakhin, OI Utesov, AG Yashenkin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In the present paper, we utilize the coupled-oscillator model describing the hybridization of
optical phonons in touching and/or overlapping particles in order to study the Raman …

Extended Vicsek fractals: Laplacian spectra and their applications

M Dolgushev, H Liu, Z Zhang - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Extended Vicsek fractals (EVF) are the structures constructed by introducing linear spacers
into traditional Vicsek fractals. Here we study the Laplacian spectra of the EVF. In …

Loop current states and their stability in small fractal lattices of Bose-Einstein condensates

G Koch, A Posazhennikova - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We consider a model of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates on small Sierpiński gaskets.
We study eigenstates which are characterized by cyclic supercurrents for each triangular …